On Thursday, 15 June 2017 at 20:05, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On 06/15/2017 02:02 PM, Tom Hughes wrote: > > On 15/06/17 18:27, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > > > >> I think you may misunderstand what "Recommends" means. At install-time, it > >> will > >> still be pulled into the system as if it was a "Requires:". The difference > >> is > >> that if someone later decides to do 'dnf remove perl-foo', it can be > >> removed > >> without also removing the main 'perl' package (which is what would happen > >> if it > >> is a full "requires"). > > > > What does "Recommends" do on upgrade? > > > > In other words if Recommends was used and a new perl version had new > > modules in > > the core package would an upgrade of perl pull them in as you would expect? > > > > I don't see how it can unless it also reinstalls ones the user had chosen to > > remove? > > You are correct, on upgrade it only updates packages currently on the system. > It > won't install new ones (except to satisfy new dependencies for existing > packages).
No, actually it does try to pull in any missing Recommends:. That's why I have to add -x trousers to every dnf update I do. dnf keeps trying to install it each time. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Rathann RPMFusion http://rpmfusion.org "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
